Stories of famous explorers in ancient and modern times and at home and abroad

Magellan 15 19 was ordered by the Spanish king to lead an expedition to find the westward route from Spice Islands to east indies. The journey westward across the Atlantic to Brazil was smooth, but then the situation began to deteriorate. A ship in the fleet was wrecked in the storm. Then several captains plotted against him. A ship turned around and came back Magellan put one of the conspirators to death, left the other two on the desolate beach and set sail again. When the fleet arrived in the Mariana Islands, local residents attacked them. Magellan was killed in a battle with a tribe on the Philippine island of Makatan. Because of his death, Magellan lost the opportunity to become the first explorer who sailed around the world.

2. Amundsen's story

Amundsen won two "firsts" in the history of exploration: the first one sailed in the northwest channel; The first person to reach the South Pole.

1in June, 903, Amundsen's expedition began to sail to the northwest channel. The whole team camped on King William Island, which goes deep into the Arctic Circle, and spent two winters and another winter on Mackenzie Island. They completed their voyage to the Pacific Ocean in September 1906.

10, Amundsen and another explorer, Fridtjof Nansen Fromm, left Norway for the South Pole. 1October 20th, 19 165438, he beat the British rival Captain Scott and set out from the base at the eastern end of Ross Ice Shelf at19 10+02+/kloc.

Roald Amundsen was one of the first two explorers to fly over the North Pole. 1926, he and Italian explorer umberto Nobil circled the North Pole twice by airship. Two years later, on another flight over the North Pole, Noble's airship collided with another UFO, and Amundsen disappeared while searching for Noble.

3. The story of Zhang Qian

In BC 139, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to Yue. His mission is to help the people in this area resist the invaders. Zhang Qian was imprisoned by Huns for 1 1 year, but after his release, he went to explore western China. His travel route passed through Afghanistan, and no one had been so far west of China at that time. After Zhang Qian came back, Emperor Xian of Han heard the news about Indian, Middle East and European countries for the first time.

Zhang Qian was the first China man to cross Afghanistan. Later, China merchants took silk and jade articles, climbed mountains and crossed the Gobi Desert along the route from Zhang Qian to the northwest of China. This route was later called "Silk Road".

4. The story of Xuanzang

Xuanzang is a monk who went to India, the birthplace of Buddhism, to learn Buddhist scriptures. He started from China, and his journey lasted 16 years, reaching 64,000 kilometers, passing through Afghanistan, Kashmir and northern India. His trip was secret, because the emperor at that time did not allow China people to travel abroad.

Xuanzang was in distress many times during his journey, and the danger mainly came from bad weather and steep Shan Ye. Xuanzang was almost killed by an arrow while drinking spring water. Later, he was imprisoned in the kingdom of Taksila in northern India. He almost froze to death in order to escape.

5. The story of Xu Xiake

Xu Hongzu (1586- 164 1), nicknamed Xia Ke, was an outstanding geographer and traveler in Ming Dynasty. Xu Xiake loved the landscape of China all his life. In feudal times, he overcame unimaginable difficulties and began to travel around the world at the age of 22.

6. Liu Yutian's story

Liu Yutian, the first professional explorer in the history of China. 1942 Born in Changge County, Henan Province on February 26th, he was a cadre of Urumqi Railway Bureau in Xinjiang.

Facing the challenge of foreigners,1May, 984, he resolutely gave up everything and started hiking on the Great Wall in Wan Li. After more than a year's arduous journey, he became the first person in the world to walk the Great Wall of Wan Li. Later, he trekked the Silk Road, the Loess Plateau and Lop Nur, Xinjiang, climbed Gelai Mountain and Kunlun Snow Mountain, inspected Shennongjia Savage, Himalayan Snowman and Rongbu Glacier, traveled along the Himalayas and Yarlung Zangbo River, tried to climb Mount Everest, and crossed the five deserts of China, such as Taklimakan and Gurbantonggut, in the Sea of Death three times.

So far, he has completed 43 research, travel and exploration projects. He traveled all over Chinese mainland, and hundreds of newspapers, magazines and TV stations in Hongkong, Taiwan Province and even the world reported his adventures, calling him "a rare traveler and explorer in the 20th century".

Ups and downs! In the past ten years, he has crossed the desert alone, walked through the Gobi, climbed dangerous peaks and waded across rivers, filling a gap in exploration for the motherland with his blood, tears and sweat.

Life and death! He took more than 10,000 black-and-white color photos with his own hands and wrote an adventure diary of more than two million words, covering politics, history, geography, literature, philosophy, art and archaeology. Several of his works have been published one after another and won many national awards, some of which have been selected as patriotic textbooks for junior high schools. The upcoming books include Legend of the Great Wall, Journey to the Silk Road, Mysterious Lop Nur, Crossing the Sea of Death, Adventures on the Roof of the World, Adventure Life, etc.